Corrections: A Critical Approach - Couverture rigide

Welch, Michael R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0070691819 ISBN 13 : 9780070691810

Editeur : McGraw Hill Higher Education, 1995

Synopsis

Welch's Corrections is the only text with a critical approach available in the market. This unique and refreshing text encourages students to think analytically about punishment. By establishing a greater social context, corrections is presented against the backdrop of social forces - namely political, economic, religious and technological forces. Students should gain a great deal of depth of understanding of the corrections system through the author's critical and issues-oriented presentation of materials. Moreover, the book consistently introduces clear, meaningful and exciting examples illustrating various issues and concepts.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Corrections: A Critical Approach (3rd edition) confronts mass imprisonment in the United States, a nation boasting the highest incarceration rate in the world. This statistic is all the more troubling considering that its correctional population is overrepresented by the poor, African-Americans, and Latinos.

Not only throwing crucial light on matters involving race and social class, this book also identifies and examines the key social forces shaping penal practice in the US - politics, economics, morality, and technology. By attending closely to historical and theoretical development, the narrative takes into account both instrumental (goal-oriented) as well as expressive (cultural) explanations to sharpen our understanding of punishment and the growing reliance on incarceration.

Covering five main areas of inquiry - penal context, penal populations, penal violence, penal process, and penal state - this book is essential reading for both undergraduate and graduate students interested in undertaking a critical analysis of penology.

Biographie de l'auteur

Michael Welch is a Professor in the Criminal Justice program at Rutgers University, US. His research interests include punishment, human rights, and social control, and his articles have appeared in journals such as Punishment and Society, Social Justice and Critical Criminology. He has also authored numerous books, including Crimes of Power & States of Impunity: The U.S. Response to Terror (Rutgers University Press, 2009), Ironies of Imprisonment (Sage, 2005), and Punishment in America (Sage, 1999).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McGraw Hill Higher Education
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0070691819
• ISBN 13: 9780070691810
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 480
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible